While reading David’s “One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow”, I’ve learned about one of their products: Providence (a system for matching users to jobs they’ll be interested in).

Not sure why I’ve never heard about it before, but anyway, I was curious to see what it learned about me.

Luckily that wasn’t very hard, since they offer a way to download your personal providence data.

You get a nice JSON file, with TagViews and InterestingTags being the interesting part with the technology/scores.

We could create a small app to parse and sort, but I’m lazy so here’s a quick bash one-liner for a top 10 for TagViews:

grep '^   \"' "Stack Exchange personalized prediction data 2016-06-21.json" | sort -nr -t ":" -k2 | head -n 10

And for InterestingTags:

grep '^    \"' "Stack Exchange personalized prediction data 2016-06-21.json" | sort -r -t ":" -k2 | head -n 10

For me, the results are pretty spot on.

"java": 214,  
"android": 88,  
"gwt": 87,  
"javascript": 43,  
"json": 26,  
"mongodb": 25,  
"linux": 24,  
"python": 22,  
"bash": 18,  
"jquery": 17,

and

"nginx": 0.529183447360992,  
"android": 0.402329504489899,  
"java": 0.278640985488892,  
"linux": 0.0971642881631851,  
"javascript": 0.0780074372887611,  
"networking": 0.0450629182159901,  
"jquery": 0.0448367521166801,  
"ubuntu": 0.0409384779632092,  
"html": 0.0403672903776169,  
"php": 0.0382767021656036,

Nice!